Knowledge management reminds me of The Codeless Code on documentation: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/215
Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)
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Re: Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)
#12> The current Remembrance Agent uses the Savant information retrieval system developed in-house by the Jan Nelson and Bradley Rhodes. The Remembrance Agent runs through emacs, a popular text editor. The user interface is programmed in elisp, and the results are presented as a three line buffer at the bottom of the window.
There is a nice retro screenshot of Emacs after this. Looks like a really old version of Emacs. A nice window into the history of computer stuff!
Re: Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
that's an interesting and fair point. what about the computability of coincidence?
"Engineer" was too strong of a word, IMO. You can increase the odds, so that it is likely to happen more often. You can't engineer an instance of it. You can't compute it. If you could, it wouldn't be coincidence; it would be design!
Yeah, perhaps not engineer the time and moment in a predictable fashion, but instead just maximize your kismet per square meter.
Re: Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)
#14When i read the title i thought the idea may have been to engineer coincidence, which seems like a contradiction, but i wonder if is not impossible.
People talked about this on HN earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25968751
The short end of it is something like: serendipity = work + telling people about the work
Re: Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)
#15I'm working on a system similar to this to satisfy my own needs but can open up to brave alpha users if requested. I've a concept of boards/themes where you can add structured information like people (to remember contacts in context), bookmarks, thoughts, tasks and even RSS feeds to stay up-to-date on a theme (e.g battery tech). Emails and calendar will be coming soon so that your personal corpus is voluminous and of…
Years ago, I submitted an admittedly half-baked version of this to YC. The concept is interesting, but the implementation options are:
a) require considerable and routine manual data entry from the end-user
b) suck up every bit of data from e.g. email, phone, messaging apps, banks and end up with some privacy/security disaster
Anyway, there are all sorts of things you could do with that data, like trawling for novel links in your social graph.
Re: Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)
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#17When i read the title i thought the idea may have been to engineer coincidence, which seems like a contradiction, but i wonder if is not impossible.
Consider an alternative view, that coincidence is an immutable feature of reality that can be searched. In that case, you aren't necessarily engineering coincidence. Rather you are searching with the intent to align your own actions with the inherent coincident bias of the universe.
Re: Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)
#18I'm working on a system similar to this to satisfy my own needs but can open up to brave alpha users if requested. I've a concept of boards/themes where you can add structured information like people (to remember contacts in context), bookmarks, thoughts, tasks and even RSS feeds to stay up-to-date on a theme (e.g battery tech). Emails and calendar will be coming soon so that your personal corpus is voluminous and of…
Yes! Would be interested in trying it out if you are looking for alpha users.
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#20I'm working on a system similar to this to satisfy my own needs but can open up to brave alpha users if requested. I've a concept of boards/themes where you can add structured information like people (to remember contacts in context), bookmarks, thoughts, tasks and even RSS feeds to stay up-to-date on a theme (e.g battery tech). Emails and calendar will be coming soon so that your personal corpus is voluminous and of…
I'm doing something like this with https://histre.com/ I'd love to try your tool, and it would also be fun to chat about this if you like (k@histre.com)